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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Daily Bi**ch*: "I so enjoy the look on the young folk's faces when I tell
them that I was born in the 1900's."
*Both a noun, and a verb, depending on usage.
NoMoreRepugs
(10,514 posts)niyad
(119,907 posts)TommyT139
(697 posts)niyad
(119,907 posts)Phentex
(16,504 posts)TommyT139
(697 posts)LoisB
(8,661 posts)Probatim
(3,016 posts)People my age laugh a lot - people my kids' ages look at me like I'm 147 years old.
It's a great ice breaker when you've got a mix of people or just older farts like me.
malthaussen
(17,672 posts)Guaranteed to get blank looks.
-- Mal
wnylib
(24,389 posts)Turns the heads of younger people and gets a gasp from some of them.
2012 example: Conversation at a debate party (Obama/Romney) turned to weather trivia about inaugurations. Someone had read that it snowed hard during Kennedy's inaugural speech. I said that I didn't remember snow during the speech, just a heavy snowfall the night before and bitter cold for the inauguration. Several heads turned and one person said, "You remember?"
ME: Well, I wasn't there.
I only watched on TV.
OTHER PERSON: Oh, you found film of the TV broadcast.
ME: No, I watched it live, real time.
SEVERAL PEOPLE: OMG!